Inspired by the fashions of the show, I used purple and black (as Violet always wears), some velvet ribbon, lace, and an eyelet. I heat embossed the background with silver, and one of their new sentiments: D509 Being You in white. What do you think...does it make you want to sit down with a cup of tea and see what the Crawley family is up to?I have mixed feelings about the new season starting next year, on the one hand I'm really looking forward to seeing how they are going to wrap everything up, but I really don't want to see the series end!

I think this theme calls for a frilly feminine design. I used a Stampin Up image from the Tea Party set layered over a doily die, accenting both with two different sizes of pearls. Thanks for dropping by, I hope you'll come play along this week!

If you aren't familiar with the Card Chain Challenge over here, come play along with us! It's so fun to get cards from other crafters around the world in the mail! Here's what I made for Lisa- she's a fan of purple so I wanted to incorporate that:

I used the sketch from the challenge along with the theme of flowers.

I used one of my new embossing folders from Stampin Up with some shimmer cardstock for the background. The sentiment is also Stampin Up, called Trust God. Flowers are a Tim Holtz die and I inked them with a bit of Milled Lavender distress ink.

Here's another stamp that I'm borrowing from a friend...this one is from Stampendous. I heat embossed it in silver.

After putting together a couple cards that turned out a bit too busy I decided to keep it super simple, using two shades of purple, black, and a silver metallic paper with a stitched border. This pretty stamp design really doesn't need much else.

This is a card I made for the 90th birthday of a dear friend. An occasion worthy of a special all-out frilly card, full of lace and layers, if ever there was one! Just the kind of card that I tend to gravitate toward making, which means I had a lot of fun putting it together. I'm not sure why I picked purple, as I don't seem to make a lot of purple cards, and I'm not even sure if she likes purple, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out and I intend to work with purple more often in the future- if only as a personal challenge.

I started out with a Spellbinders die that I'm currently borrowing from a friend and discovered that I had a stamp to match it (made by The Angel Company which is now out of business). I'm also borrowing this Stampin Up butterfly stamp and punch from the same friend so I wanted to use those. I embossed the butterfly in a light purple-it ended up just looking white. For the black layer I used the Martha Stewart Deco Fan edge and corner punches. The next layer is a purple vellum with a lovely bit of sparkle to it which I had to add a bit of sewing to of course, and a pearl in each corner. I used a paisley embossing folder for the light purple background, some lace, and it was done! The card base is black so I did a few layers on the inside for the message. I also had to make an envelope to match since it's a square card.

The butterfly is glued just in the center so his wings stand up a bit. The layer underneath is a light purple cardstock sprayed with Tattered Angels Sugar Plum Fairy.